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EDITH WHARTON S THE AGE OF INNOCENCE Awarded the $1,000 Pulitzer Prize by Columbia Uni versity in June, 1921, as "the American novel pub lished during the year which best presented the whole some atmosphere of American life and the highest standard of American manners and manhood." "The best piece of fiction of the present season." The Outlook. "Edith Wharton is a writer who brings glory on the name of America, and this is her best book. A con summate work of art. It is one of the best novels of the twentieth century and looks like a permanent addi tion to literature." William Lyon Phelps in the New York Times Book Review. "A fine novel, beautifully written, big* in the best sense. A credit to American literature." Henry Seidel Canby in the New York Evening Post. "Of this American generation Edith Wharton is un questionably the novelist foremost in intellectual dis tinction." The Philadelphia North American. "A work of surpassing art." The Philadelphia Public Ledger. "Edith Wharton has proved herself again a superb novelist." The Chicago Tribune. " The Age of Innocence is by all odds the great novel of the year." The Christian World. "Mrs. Wharton has written a brilliant novel. Her picture of a place and period is extraordinarily fasci nating." Heywood Broun in the New York Tribune. "Mrs. Wharton has added another victory to her varied triumphs in the field of fiction." The Atlantic Monthly. D. APPLETON AND COMPANY New York London T 717